[Issue Report] skybleu: mod manager problem

[simple-mod-framework]

Metadata

Reported by: @skybleu

Type of issue: Mod manager problem

Platform: Steam

OS version: Windows 11 Pro (25H2)

Game version: 3.250.1

SMF version: 2.33.34

Notes

Can't find 'remove mods' option.
I want to temporarily disable all mods to play online version of the game without peacock.

Bonus goal: would be nice to have mod 'profiles' with specified mods enabled and their settings set in specified way.
Would be great to have consistent (best-effort style, so not perfect but usable) way to save multiple different user-defined profiles for several common use-cases (listed as examples, besides first one users should define their own):

• mods disabled (common use case to try vanilla game while saving my favourite config as separate profile)
• bare minimum QOL - for streamers that want to play near-vanilla game but allow some mods that fix bugs or enable new modes they want to show
• a minimal set of mods I can use when i plan to save the game to cloud and want it to work on multiple machines
• current favourite - I want to save current combination/order of mods and their settings, that I verified working, before experimenting with adding new ones that might break sth - easy rollback to last known good config is really useful

Stretch goal: as long as framework, game and enabled mods versions are same, cache deployment artifacts to easily switch between profiles without long deployment process.

[skybleu]

Hello there!

[JojjeE]

Mod profiles exist in SMF version 3 (still in development) so there's that.

It's not ideal but I myself just copy the config.json and name it different things as kind of profiles and copy back and overwrite config.json with the one I want.

Anyway you "remove" mods by emptying your load order and applying.

[skybleu]

Mod profiles exist in SMF version 3 so there's that.

Can't find such feature in GUI, can you please give more details? Perhaps that's CLI-only feature? I really would not mind that as well, can still make simple bat scripts to automate for convenience.

It's not ideal but I myself just copy the config.json and name it different things as kind of profiles.

I mean... that would work. I would need to close framework, replace config, start framework and manually hit 'apply' right?
Or is there an option to automate it (deployment specifically) from CLI?

Anyway you "remove" mods by emptying your load order and applying.

Yeah, I figured as much. Might be to hard to catch for some people tho. Might be sth worth updating when considering this:
What does happen if you uninstall framework without doing this manual step?

[JojjeE]

The mods will stay deployed until you remove the extra rpkg files and verify the game files.

You can't find the option because SMF v3 is closed beta at present.

Running Deploy.exe in a terminal directly will, well, deploy, without starting the UI. I do it frequently

[skybleu]

Glad to hear that! can't wait for the next version, I really hope that the cache thing was considered as well tho, as with age it will become much more common case. And H3 is already quite mature context.

If v3 is closed beta, then I believe it's best for this issue to stay open for now, as that still counts as unsolved in current prod. Would you agree?

BTW since it's such simple issue, can I assume that running Deploy.exe after removing config.json is already part of the uninstall script?

[EDIT] Just to clarify, I assume that leaving mod artifacts after mod manager deinstallation will inevitably cause problems (if the player did not manually run 'verify game files' in steam later) once the game version is eventually updated (and it likely will, even few years past expected support date - example: Fallout 4).
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe that if option to remove mods existed more people would naturally use it before framework uninstall, and if some people will not consider it at all the uninstall script prompt to do so would cover all other edge cases.

[JojjeE]

Don't know about any of that I'm not the maintainer just a seasoned user